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A dog barks at a formation of riot police near the Greek parliament in Athens. Tens of thousands of grassroots activists and unionists converged on Athens' central Syntagma (Constitution) Square Wednesday as Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to push through a new five-year campaign of tax hikes, spending cuts and selloffs of state property to continue receiving aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund and avoid default. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

Anna enjoys the warm weather during water skiing with her class mates on a lake in Duisburg, Germany. Martin Meissner/AP

Statues of angels fixed at the St. Isaak's Cathedral are silhouetted on the full moon in St. Petersburg, Russia. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP

Seaman Quincy Fermer of the USS Carl Vinson hugs his Thiana after seeing her for the first time after disembarking from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in San Diego. The US Navy aircraft carrier from which the body of Osama bin Laden was buried at sea has returned to its home port in San Diego Bay. Gregory Bull/AP

Policemen wave to beachgoers to stay away from a cargo ship which ran aground due to rough weather in Mumbai. A ship named Wisdom, which was being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away due to rough weather and drifted its way on to the Mumbai coast line. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

A boy looks at a flooded street outside a tire repair store in Xianning, Hubei province. Torrential rains are still ravaging central and southern China, nearly two weeks after leaving at least 105 people dead and 65 missing, the state news agency Xinhua reported. Darley Wong/Reuters

A robin delivers a mouthful of worms to a nest full of its baby birds, in North Andover, Mass. Mary Schwalm/AP

A foreign Buddhist devotee lights an oil lamp on Poson Poya day at the Gangaramaya Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Buddhists celebrate Poson Poya day to commemorate the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka. Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

An Afghan man walks his dog in an area littered with garbage in Kabul Afghanistan. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

Libyan rebel fighters fire a grad rocket at the front line west of the rebel-held city of Misrata. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

Workers are framed in a grid structure in Singapore. Unemployment rate in Singapore fell to 1.9 percent in March, the lowest in three years, from 2.2 percent in December, the Manpower Ministry said. Wong Maye-E/AP

A girl stretches her arms out as waves hit her during high tide at the promenade along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India. Rajanish Kakade/AP

Hatchling Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) are released to the sea as part of a project to help reintroduce the species in the Mediterranean Sea, in Amoladeras beach at the Cabo de Gata-Nijar nature reserve, southeast coast in Almeria. Francisco Bonilla/Reuters

Britain's Luke Donald hits out of the sand trap on the second hole during the final practice round for the 2011 US Open golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland. Jeff Haynes/Reuters

After widespread protests, a six-month state of emergency started in October. Now, much depends on the next move of leaders who have long used their track record of economic development to paper over widespread human rights abuses and political repression.

ByJames Jeffrey, ContributorDecember 9, 2016

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For nearly a year, mass protests surged across Ethiopia – and stormed across the world’s headlines – as a movement that began with farmers fighting land grabs outside the country’s capital mushroomed into the country’s most sustained and widespread period of dissent and protests since its ruling party came to power more than two decades ago.